NYCPHP Meetup

[Sterling Hughes]

> >  
> > Am I going the right way about this, or is there a better way?
> 
> This is the right way; aside from using cURL :)  Or you could use real
> sockets (as opposed to streams, of which fsockopen() is) if you have a lot of
> time to kill.
> 
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.sockets.php
> 

three notes:

1) Use cURL, any PHP solution you create will be 1/5 the speed, at best.
2) You can't do ssl handshakes, etc. in PHP
3) cURL and the cURL extension will be bundled as of php5

-Sterling


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